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Category Archives: Salad
Portillo’s Chopped Salad
When my Mom hosts holidays or family parties she usually leaves me in charge of preparing the salad. Admittedly, I do make a mean salad, but how many variations of lettuce and dressing can one actually come up with? Luckily I can come up with a lot!
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Caesar Salad with Adobo Sauce
I am not a lover of salads. I am not even a liker of salads. At least, not lettuce salads. I enjoy fruit salads, apple salads, and pasta salads. My husband, however, is a lover of salads, especially Caesar salad. He goes on salad kicks where he will eat the same salad everyday for 2 weeks. Then for 2 months he will want nothing to do with salad. It drives me crazy because I have all these bottles of salad dressing taking up space in my fridge. I have pretty much stopped buying salad dressing though. It is much easier to make small amounts of homemade dressing. Plus, if he knows the dressing has a short shelf life he will be more likely to use it up.
Caprese Salad with Heirloom Tomatoes
A couple weeks ago my roommate and I had a date night at a cute Italian restaurant nearby called Dinotto. We went all out and treated ourselves to a bottle of wine, an appetizer, entrees and a dessert! The appetizer was my favorite part…Caprese Salad.
Posted in Appetizers, Healthy, Recipes, Salad, Side Dishes
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Thai Cucumber Salad
One of Cliff’s favorite cuisines is Thai food. He LOVES pad thai. We go to a local place and for about $9 he gets enough pad thai for dinner and 2 lunches. I like Thai food but there are only a few dishes that I will eat. Pretty much just rama chicken and the cucumber salad they serve as a side. Our local place has a really great scallop appetizer that I like as well. It is sautéed scallops with a lemon soy-sauce sauce. Last time we were there I ordered the scallop appetizer and the cucumber salad. I was expecting a small salad of cucumbers, carrots, red onions, (which I, of course, would pick out) and a tangy dressing. But this salad has an unexpected component. Crab meat. I knew right away that we would need to recreate the salad.
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Carrot and Ginger Salad Dressing
My family and I have been going to a restaurant called Kampai for as long as I can remember. It’s a Japanese restaurant where the chefs cook in front of you…and it’s one of my favorite restaurants. In recent years, the restaurant has been attracting some…suspect characters…ones who bring their own cans of Pepsi in a plastic Jewel bag, for example. Or a group who orders basically everything off the menu then leaves with 99% leftovers. Who does that?? But after a few giggles and whispers from my family and me we begin what we set out to do. Pig out!